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The Takeout with Major Garrett

Political Analyst Terry Sullivan on His Travels to Antarctica and Mount Everest [Extended Interview]

The Takeout with Major Garrett

CBS News

News, Politics

4.6586 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Major spoke with CBS News Contributor, Terry Sullivan, about his recent trip to the coldest continent in Antarctica. Sullivan explains the differences between traveling outside of your comfort zone with his long-time experience in running political campaigns in the past. An interesting conversation that you're not going to want to miss!

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Jerry Sullivan, part of my ongoing quest to let my audience know who they see on CBS with frequency, but maybe want to know more about.

0:38.5

So here's what I want to know about you. Why are you, among all the people I've met in Washington

0:43.1

in more than 30 years, the most adventurous spirit? You've climbed Mount Everest and you're

0:51.6

just back from Antarctica. Yeah. Well, what is that about? Well, thank you

0:55.1

for the compliment. I don't know that I'm the most adventurous, but I do some crazy things and I do

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have a sense of adventure. Look, I think we should all do big things in life, things that are bigger than us.

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I think it's important to push our boundaries, get outside of our comfort zone. It makes us

1:11.2

better people. It makes us understand the world around us. Just sitting and being in D.C., look, the number one question, you and I both know, and you meet anybody in D.C., the number one, first question is, what do you do for a living? It's like, you know, and I like, you know, what do you do for fun? It doesn't have to be climb a mountain. It can be, we've got mutual. Look at Jonathan Martin. If you ever want to know we're the best food in any dive city in America, or maybe the world is, Jonathan will tell you. We've got lots of friends like that that push beyond these just, you know, doing things that are interesting and learning about the world

1:44.3

around us. And that's, I love to do, you know, mountains and adventure. How much for that is

1:50.7

confronting fear for you? A lot. I mean, look, when you purposely do dangerous things,

2:00.1

everything else seems much more relaxing. I mean, think about it.

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Like, I watch people now. I used to hate air travel. I mean, I still don't like it, but I used to

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hate how stressful it was, and you're going to miss your flight and this and rushing through an airport.

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And now I'm like, well, wait a minute. If I miss my flight,

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it's about 70 degrees in this airport. There are places to sit. You know, there's a food

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court, you know. More importantly, there's a bar serving. Like, it's, you know, when you're

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at a 10, my needs are going to be met here. When you're, when you're, when you're on a 10, it's negative 20 or you're worried about any exposed, exposed skin getting frostbite, like, those are real issues or falling off of a rope line, you know, or these type things are falling in a crevasse.

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